hello folks, thanks for the ratsun community, I just bought an old 1978 datsun/dolpin 620 housecar, I'll try to load pics as soon as I can figure them out, this think is a POW! let me tell you what I've done, and what I think I know (more to learn by far). it had a bad alternator, so i found ratsun and ended up putting in a 200sx alternator, not much, but 15 more amps w/o much modification, a bigger fan belt, and a pain with the lower radiator hose and the bracket, it fit, but just barely (it just failed, not sure why/how come, more to come...)
Also, mine only has wider on the rear, they are 245-60-14, on maybe ten inch rims, the tires are fifteen years old, this thing, as per the state DMV, has been unlicensed for ten years! It too, has 81,000 miles on it (is it the same one mentioned above?) . I can't find much at all about them, some info on toyotas, but I did find someone somewhere else posted that theirs also had the wide tires on the rear, and not duallys. Also, the federal government banned duallys on the rear of these, as they would cause a failure in the rear end (stress/breakage), unless they were a beefier axle made for duallys...given that the only wide fourteens I can find (any fourteens for that matter), are only a B rating. Somewhere on the web, I read that these (1973?) dolphin weighted in at like 6000 pounds with like 3700 rear and 1800 front, so I figured that those rear tires weren't strong enough to carry this camper, so I got some fifteen inch rims, and had some used 235-75-15s put on them, but then I got problems with clearance on the front end, so we cut a little out of the front frame right in front of the tire, and raised it up with the torsion bar adjustments, still touches a little, I'm stumped, now I need a f'n alignment, and the shop can't fit it in it's bay. I may just order in some of those 245/14s, and go back to that system. I should have taken it over some scales and found out for sure what it weighted in at!? The carb is bad, has to be primed, coughs, sputters, spits back up out the carb, until it warms up, then smooths out some, it did pass emissions, my mechanic told me to warm it up good, prior to taking it in. Electrical has issues, brake light, signals, etc. my brother is checking that over now. the cord to plug the camper in, I guess, had been patched, and shorted out, blew the GFCI on the house. I read that they step down from 110 to 12, but no converter to step up to 110 from the 12 volt system, and my brother agrees. There is damage on the inside, cushions, bed, paneling, etc. the stove is rusty. I found one used stove but it's $150.oo, and I may just paint this one with high temp paint? cushions for the camper, I found some dog beds for like thirty bucks each, so four of those for the inside, and a futon I bought for twenty bucks will work for the cabover, the cab seats, doors and headliner are in good shape, anyway fols, more to come, and thanks!